President Donald Trump has reportedly asked Homeland Security and national security officials if the military could drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes to stop them from making landfall in the US.
A senior Trump administration official said the requests were well-intentioned in an effort to save American lives.
In a meeting with top national security and homeland security officials, according to US news website Axios, when informed of the future threat of hurricanes, Trump replied: "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?
"They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?"